[Hrgeeks] Save the Internet: Support Net Neutrality!

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> industry sector to ever be a bad company? Good companies will keep
> growing and always try to increase market share and innovation/growth
> into new markets. This is what they do and I am not suggesting that they

And grow. And grow. And grow. Until it's all theirs. Competition all 
bought, then a monopoly.

> is that competition isn't just about cable providers or phone providers
> but about the gambit of technologies that provide similar services.

The only competitors for high speed internet to home at the time is really 
cable modem vs fios vs *DSL. The wireless services are too restricted. Sat 
is latent as all hell. Perhaps in the future, but Sprint + Cox are in bed 
together. Verizon landline and Verizon wireless. AT&T is running wireless 
and does DSL and I believe CATV in some areas. You're really only looking 
at a handful of competitors still.

> Anyone with a clue sees that the net will one day become just a utility
> like electricity, and time is slipping away for the government to
> control and tax it (meaning that it will become harder to do once it
> does but obviously not impossible).

Maybe then, they will stop trying to sell me analog telephone pairs. I 
can't imagine how much Cox pays to send me so much paperwork and call me 
so much.